We will pair our discussion of the chapters each week with listening to a segment of an audio presentation by Pema Chodron on dealing with difficult emotions — something crucial for participatory democracy in these times):
All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church is pleased to announce their Annual Gala and Silent Auction will be held on Saturday (28 April 2018) from 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM.
Please join us on Sunday (22 April 2018) at 11:00 AM for our Earth Day Celebration — “If We Break Our Earth, We Can’t Get a New One” presented by the children, youth, and adults of All Souls.
Join us for this celebration of the interdependent web of all existence, our place in it, and our responsibility to all life and to each other.
We will pair our discussion of the chapters each week with listening to a segment of an audio presentation by Pema Chodron on dealing with difficult emotions — something crucial for participatory democracy in these times):
We will also have updates on bills we are watching in the current legislative session via Interfaith, Louisiana Prison Alternatives, and other organizations.
Please join us on Sunday (15 April 2018) at 11:00 AM for “Pulling Weeds and Other Lessons for the Work of Justice” by Rev. Barbara Jarrell.
Rev. Barbara is back in the pulpit this morning and the All Souls Choir will sing.
A newcomer information session will follow the service. We show a DVD from the Unitarian Universalist Association, talk more about our faith tradition, our congregation, and listen to your stories as you are willing and comfortable to tell them. Child care will be provided.
Religious education classes for children and youth are offered during the 11:00 AM service.
Children and youth attend the first 15-20 minutes of the service and then are dismissed to class.
We will pair our discussion of the chapters each week with listening to a segment of an audio presentation by Pema Chodron on dealing with difficult emotions — something crucial for participatory democracy in these times):
We will also have updates on bills we are watching in the current legislative session via Interfaith, Louisiana Prison Alternatives, and other organizations.
Mrs. McCollum — an atheist — objected to so-called “voluntary” classes in religious instruction in her young son James’s elementary school.
Vashti McCollum and her son James (1948)
She objected on the grounds that they were not only inappropriate for public school but also that they were not voluntary at all (considering that the children who did not wish to participate were ostracized by their peers and even coerced by their teachers to attend).
Justice Hugo Black wrote the majority opinion and the American Unitarian Association was one of several religious groups supporting the decision.
We are honored to welcome Jim McCollum to our pulpit today to talk about this historic decision — still all too timely in many ways — from the eyes of the child at the center of it.
Jim is married to the Rev. Betty Grace McCollum who has spoken several times at All Souls. This will be his first time in our pulpit.
Please join us on Sunday (29 April 2018) at 9:15 AM for our adult religious education class.
